Optimizing procurement planning of Navy ships and aircraft
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Authors
Baran, Nihat
Subjects
Integer linear programming
Military capital budgeting
Optimization
Force structure
Military capital budgeting
Optimization
Force structure
Advisors
Dell, Robert F.
Date of Issue
2000-12
Date
December 2000
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The United States Navy Chief of Naval Operations Assessment Division (N81) is responsible for planning long-range capital expenditure on ships, submarines and aircraft. This planning is complicated, involves billions of dollars over decades, and determines future Navy capability. Navy force structure analysts have to balance: yearly budgets; requirements, current inventory, and procurement options for ships, submarines, and aircraft; and capacity and workforce levels of shipyards and factories. N81 Navy analysts currently use the Extended Planning Annex/Total Obligated Authority (a spreadsheet that estimates the financial impact of any complete future plan) to assist them with their complex planning. The Capital Investment Planning Aid (CIPA) is a prototypic optimization model, limited in scale, previously developed to demonstrate the benefits of augmenting EPA/TOA with optimization. This thesis introduces Generalizing Procurement Planning for Naval Ships and Aircraft (GENSA), which extends CIPA. GENSA is tested with a 30-year planning horizon with 29 mission areas, 45 ship classes, 39 aircraft types, 13 production facilities, and four categories of money. A current base case and an excursion demonstrate GENSA can be used to address exigent issues optimally.
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Thesis
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Operations Research (OR)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
xvi, 52 p.
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